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The Cricket World Cup is currently underway in Australia and New Zealand, and Indian carrier Reliance has announced today that it is partnering with Twitter to provide free access to the microblogging service to its customers for the duration of the event. If you're a Reliance subscriber, you can now browse the latest tweets from the Cricket World Cup on Twitter without incurring any data...

In an internal memo sent out to employees, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo acknowledged the platform's ongoing problems with harassment and abuse as well as its inability to combat trolls. Costolo admitted that this behavior was a key factor in driving away core users from the platform, and that he would be taking an aggressive stance against trolls on Twitter.
According to the internal memo, which...

The Twitter for BlackBerry 10 app is in the process of receiving a rather healthy update. Appearing in BlackBerry World right now is v10.4.30.12 and according to the change log, it brings along with some long requested features and several new settings that end users will enjoy.
New features and enhancements in Twitter for BlackBerry:
View multiple pictures in a tweet
Attach multiple...

Twitter will soon be offering offering all users of its social network some new features and tools that will enable them to report abusive activity faster, along with a new page that shows which Twitter accounts a user has blocked.
Twitter stated:
We're improving the reporting process to make it much more mobile-friendly, require less initial information, and, overall, make it simpler to...

Remember that fancy new feature that allows you to search every tweet ever posted that Twitter announced last week? Well if you're one of the many users of third-party Twitter apps, prepare to be disappointed: Twitter's new search API won't be open to third-party clients, much to the frustration of developers.
The move shouldn't come as much of a surprise given that Twitter has been on a...

Have you ever felt like searching through tweets you published years ago? Now you can using Twitter's search engine. Searches on the social network were previously limited to just a week before tweets were removed from the index (but still viewable by other means - direct links, profile timelines, etc). Twitter has worked on rolling out a new search engine that not only keeps up with the...

No longer the fun-loving "Toys 'R' Us" kid, Twitter is all grown up now and it wants to make money. The social network released a statement on Wednesday outlining its strategy on the Internet, stating that it wants to bring in revenue, and lots of it, though it did not give any specifics on that plan. The confusing statement was met with some mockery on the social network itself.
In its...

Twitter has just rolled out a new service for developers to integrate into their apps called Digits, which should make it more secure for consumers to sign into apps and services. Rather than complex usernames and passwords, Digits hopes to simplify the sign in process by using your phone number and an SMS verification to allow you to log in.
Announced at Twitter's Flight developer...

Twitter has today announced the popular social network will display tweets from random users you don't currently follow in a bid to bring more relevant content to your home timeline, and to pick up some new friends along the way. Twitter isn't shy at testing out new experimentations with its micro-blogging service and the team has been actively working on the new feature that you'll either...

In an earlier post, we let you all know Nemory Studios was working on a new Twitter app called Twittly. The app has spent a few days in private beta testing since we initially posted about it but now, it has gone into a full open beta status and is available to everyone through the BlackBerry Beta Zone.
Twittly has gone through several changes since it's initial private beta testing but there'...

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